It is a chemical maze: Food Additive List

Ever wondered what the difference is between E235Natamycin and E102Tartrazine? We did too, so we thought we would put this food additive list together with it’s possible side effects. If you want to find out more about a particular additive, simply click the link and it will take you to wikipedia.

Linked to toxic hazards, including ulcers and cancer; the most serious concerns relate to degraded carrageenan, which is not a permitted additive; however, native carrageenan, which is used, may become degraded in the gut

Personally, we are advocates for real whole food at 180 Nutrition and always look to cut out food additives and chemicals from our diet as much as possible. Hence why there are no food additives in our 180 Natural Protein Supplement.

I can remember watching a bit of a doco on SBS earlier in the year called Food Additives: An edible adventure. Definitely worth a watch in regards to E numbers etc, interesting to find out where some of these come from and their effects on the body 🙂

Nice list, but what were the sources of these info? In its recent form it seems more like a panic mongering page to me than a list to be trusted. E.g. E170 (calcium carbonate): toxic at ‘high doses’. As we could see even hamburger is toxic at ‘high doses’ (Supersize me). What is high dose? 1 gram? 10 grams? And what is toxic? To inhale? To eat two spoons of CaCo3 or drink it in solvent form?

Of course, there are really problematic ingredients (e.g. some food colours), but blaming every ingredients in our food (including ones that occur naturally in vegetables) is not convincing to me.

Put together a reference list based on solid evidence an you get more credit for this list. And don’t panic! 😉